Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :DragonFly could really lead the way here amongst the BSDs who all use some :version of disklabel. Can DF boot from a GPT partition? If so the next :thing would be teaching it to boot from such a partition without a :disklabel present. : :For example: :/boot ... /dev/da0p0 :/ ... /dev/da0p1

Re: Is it time to dump disklabel and use GPT instead?

2010-07-25 Thread elekktretterr
Well, there are two parts to GPT. There is the partition table standard and then there is the BIOS support. If you mean booting from a GPT compatibility slice without needing the BIOS support then it is probably doable. This. I've come across a few people (Linux users